Trusting the government to regulate who can and cannot protest sets a very dangerous precedent. I do not agree at all.The second amendment gives the right to all US citizens to keep and bear arms, doesn't mean it's right. It should be regulated, just like protests. Unauthorized protests can turn out to be very dangerous for both the protesters and the passerby.
Now, what am I going to write can be debatable and I will respect your decision to tell me that I'm wrong (just like anything else written here).
If I'm driving a car and I see a group of masked people coming towards me with bats and metal chains and people shouting stuff I can't hear, the first thing I would do is set the reverse gear and get the hell out.
However, if what I'm seeing is really shocking to me, I can understand why someone would just push forward. Especially if they have no idea about an unauthorized protest going on and they (rightfully) assume that their life is in danger. You shouldn't be protesting with your face covered while holding bats and metal chains.
He was an attendee of the protest. He traveled there from Kentucky. How can you say he was just driving through and didn't know there was a protest?
He attended as a member of the white supremacist group Vanguard America
What evidence do you have that they were coming towards him? I have seen all the footage and haven't seen anything to indicate that.
Further, most of the people in the videos are not masked.
Finally, there are two other cars moving very slowly in front of him. Why did they not have a fight or flight response and run 20 people over?
No you didn't claim non-libs to be saints (which I never said you said), but you are saying that these are all problems with the left.As for the other two, I never claimed non-liberals to be saints.
How many people have Antifa killed?But these seem like isolated cases to me.
How many people have the far-right killed?
This is exactly the problem. You are looking at youtube compilations that filter out all of the normal boring shit that goes on at protests. Go to a few protests yourself and see what it's likeYouTube is filled with compilations of liberals being aggressive, especially during "protests".
Youtube is also filled with compilations of conservatives being aggressive. You cannot conclude from this that therefore conservative activism is thus illegitimate.
Why would you even go to a protest by covering your face?
To protect oneself from doxxing which as we've already agreed, happens on both sides.
(Before you say this is contradictory, I did not say doxxing is good, I said doxxing is not fascism).
That was a private conversation, it's not like he tweeted about it. We all say stuff we don't really mean sometimes.
Who cares if it's a private conversation? I'd love to know every damn thing each and every one of our elected officials has said. It makes it easier to judge them and know if they are being honest. Transparency is a good thing.
If Barack Obama said to Hillary in private that he hates white people I'd damn well want to know about it.
What indication do you have that he didn't mean it?
Considering he has been accused of sexual harassment and even rape by 19 different women since 1989, he is buds with convicted pedophile and child pimp Jeffrey Epstein, and he was known to walk in on beauty peagent contestants dressing rooms it seems like it's much more likely that he did mean what he said.
But, assuming you are right and there is somehow proof that he didn't actually mean what he said, is that much better? Do we really want the leader of our country to be a man who lies about assaulting women to impress his friends?
Your example doesn't prove your statement though. It proves that 3 people at a protest didn't were either not very articulate or not very informed.Mine was just an example. Also, the person wasn't even in a protest.
Again... you haven't proved that this is a problem with the left. here is a video that shows more stupid people at a right-wing rally than yours does
This is not reflective of all the people at the rally, let alone all Trump supporters or the American right. You know the Daily Show only put in the most extreme examples.
Why does it matter if they are physically at a protest? Cornell West goes to protests all the time.
Again, this doesn't prove your point that the left calls everything fascist. And even if it did, you have not proven that they are wrong.Again, just an example. Here's another article by The Guardian though.
Klein's piece is describing tenets of fascism and how she sees those in the current American right. Your argument would be much stronger if you explained why she (or the other author on the HuffPo blog) were wrong, instead of just noting that their pieces existed.
Right but that's not intrinsically fascist.Doxxing can be definitely seen as "do as we say or we will ruin your life" though.
Donald Trump is currently using that tactic with North Korea, do you consider that fascism?
Reputable statisticians gave him a decent shot of winning which I think is fair (but I cannot really comment as I'm not a statistician)Just like Hillary Clinton would've most certainly won the elections.
People are just afraid to say that they support Trump.
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